Nicholas C. Forstmann

Nicholas C. "Nick" Forstmann (1947–2000) was one of the founding partners of Forstmann Little & Company, a private equity firm.

Nick Forstmann graduated from Georgetown University in 1969, and began working at the Morgan Guaranty Trust Company. In 1975, Nicholas Forstmann joined Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., a company with which he would later develop a rivalry. He founded Forstmann Little with his older brother, Ted, and Brian Little, in 1978.

Forstmann served on the advisory boards of Georgetown University and Marymount College. He also served as the vice chairman of 1996 Vice Presidential candidate Jack Kemp's Empower America, a free market advocacy group.

He also played a leading role in Forstmann Little's bid to acquire RJR Nabisco. Forstmann was featured in the book about the bidding war, Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco, and was portrayed in the subsequent film by actor Joseph Kell.

Forstmann was a leading contributor to the Republican Party, drawing ire from the rival Democratic Party.

He died in 2000 of small-cell lung cancer.